Vanity Trove + Switch with Ground Zero!

TGIF!!! :D :D :D

i promised to blog more regularly, but only managed to squeeze out a blog entry today! actually, i really have a lot of stuff i wanna blog about! i even typed out this list of content that i want to blog! it's okay, i'll slowly blog about them one by one ^^

today's blog entry is somewhat outdated, but i received my April Trove from Vanity Trove and haven't gotten a chance to share it yet! this whole beauty box subscription idea is SO ingenious! i've heard of a few other websites with similar concepts, but by far, Vanity Trove's products and branding are definitely the most appealing to me!

it's quite simple, you just need to pay a monthly subscription fee of $25, and every month, a box consisting of various handpicked skincare, makeup, body, fragrances and hair products will arrive at your doorstep! it's SO fun to come home to a "present", and even more fun to unwrap and open your box to check out what surprises lie in store for you!

everything's prettily packed into a nice little box, and there's even a newsletter which doles out beauty tips each month!

i really love the products sent in my April Trove! they are all products i find very interesting, while some brands are fresh and new to me! i had to try some of the products immediately upon opening my box, and i really fell in love with some of them! the Braphy LED Lip Plumper is really awesome, it really makes my lips look poutier! and i've already tried K-Palette's Zero Kuma Cover Control Concealer and i thought that it was quite good, so it was nice to get another full-sized product in my Trove! :D

 

the star product for me, however, is the hair product enclosed within my April Trove, which is Style Aromatheraphy Moroccan Argan Hair Moisturizer! remember i said i had an amazing hair product to share about? YES!! it's this super miraculous hair moisturizer! it's a leave-in product, and i apply it on my semi-wet or dry hair, before blow drying my hair and it makes the shape turn out so nicely!! i love it!!!

so happy to discover this product, i'm definitely going to get the full-sized product from stores when mine runs out! 

for only $25 a month, i'm loving it! i LOVE the surprise factor, and the products that comes in each trove are indeed well worth the $25! so fun! :D

http://www.vanitytrove.com/

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and i finally have a chance to edit and upload the photos from my gig at Switch with Ground Zero three weeks ago!!!! oh gosh.. it was such an incredible experience for me, mostly because of all my MAD SUPPORTIVE friends!!! i can't emphasize how happy and grateful i felt because so many lovely people took the effort to come down to watch and listen, or even if they couldn't make it down, sent their love via Twitter/Whatsapp/Instagram and what not!

you don't need to be a super star, to feel like one :')


well to be honest, it was my first full English gig, and singing in English is something that i can do, but is not quite my forte. i'm more well-versed in singing Mandarin songs, and added to that, i had to choose my songs from a limited song list due to time constraints, and did not have any rehearsals with the band at all, so i was really quite nervous about screwing up real bad!

in the end, it went okay, but i wouldn't say i did a fantastic job because some of the songs probably didn't really suit me (there were a lot of songs from male artistes) and i was still adjusting to the acoustics of singing with the live band. nonetheless, i had so much fun! especially with Ground Zero being incredibly awesome. Alex, the male vocalist was really great to sing with, and the live band atmosphere was superb!

i look exceedingly retarded when i'm singing though. HAHAHA. so i have only picked those shots in which i don't look quite so bad in! :S

vocalist: Alex, guitarist: Ben, drummer: Alfe, bassist: Mervyn, keyboardist, Celeste!

and the first of my audience that i need to thank is of course YZ ^^ who stayed the entire night and was almost as tired i was by the time it ended! thank you bb! ❤

sissy Lina also came down, and helped to take all the photos above for me! :D teehee, though i only managed to pick a few acceptable shots out of all the ugly ones :X but i guess i can't blame you for that haha

my favorite Poh sisters, always there to be my cheerleaders!!!! ❤ THANK YOU. (lots of unspoken gratitude) of course, Collin too! :D

the Reenie gang who all had to come down too, hehehe. THANK YOU peeps!!!

the later it got, the merrier! Simin and Yingdan came down too, followed by Eils, Farah and Ella! yay! thank you so much, girls!!! MUACKS. love you all nong time!

and the group of people who are always more than excited to come down support! my awesome pals from the SYC!!! the "kids", Ben, Charlene, Zhengwei, Gloria, Kennard, Zhengyang, Siewlin, Zhirei, Kelvin, Germ and Jiarong as well as my dear Aini (miss you babe!!!), Songern, and Delin all came down! i hope you guys had fun!!

thank you Ella and Farah! :D :D

and my Eils! hehehehe.

so there is this song dedication system, where you can SMS to dedicate songs and all that. and look at what kind of messages came through instead!! =___=

CONFIRM i know is Germ do one. hahahaha. OEI.....

but got lagi better message here...

A PROPOSAL?!!!! guess i don't have to even tell you who is the culprit behind this message...

=_= and some people thought it was a "real" proposal!!! no la, he say say only :X hahahaha. i guess my dear Mr Peh needed a public avenue to express his love and support for me :X okay, go and grab your puke bag now.

BUT HE'S GOT COMPETITION!!! so who is this mysterious person. hahahahaha. ok la bluff one. this was from one of my SYC kids! thanks for creating some drama and hype, hahaha.

with Simin, who came down with her boyfriend! thank you babe!

and two girls that i haven't seen for the longest time popped by to listen and support too, JY and Jozie! :D :D :D so happy to see you two girls! thank you so much for coming down!

us and the two awkward boyfriends Josh and Roy at the back haha! thank you all for coming, i really appreciate it!!!

even dear HJ came down for awhile! :D LOVE LOVE.

can't miss out on these fantastic peeps from Nuffnang!! my dearest manager, Gabby, and with Jayne, Chris and Huixian who all came down to cheer me on too!! i am so touched!! ❤❤❤

with Nadia who also came down with her fiancé! :D :D thank you Nad!!! hope you had fun!

and the girls who made it down for the last set! Hat, Hil and Woon! so glad you girls came down too!

somehow didn't get to take pictures with everybody.. so sad! :((( Evonne came down with Yang and her friends too, and i didn't get a pic with her on my camera :(

at least we got one on her iPhone! :D :D :D thankew for coming down and for being so supportive, babe!!! ❤

and thank you Ground Zero! it was really a fabulous experience for me!

:D

Switch by Timbre
73 Bras Basah Road #01-01/02
Phone 63367739 

 http://www.switchmusic.sg 

Hours 
 Mon - Thu: 6:00 pm - 1:00 am 
Fri - Sat: 6:00 pm - 2:00 am 

Guide to DIY Brow Shaping!

here's my little secret: i am absolutely obsessed with eyebrows, and i think having nicely shaped and groomed brows is an essential part of personal grooming for us ladies, and even for guys! lol, sometimes i go around and force my friends to let me tweeze/shape their eyebrows for them, i think i'm quite a terror. HAHAHA.

since i'm so hardcore about them eyebrows, here's my little guide to D-I-Y brow shaping! save all that money you spend to get your brows done outside every month, i haven't been to do my brows for maybe a year already! or you could probably go every few months just to get the shape there, and then maintain your brows yourself by tweezing them every once in a while, it's really not that difficult once you get the hang of it!

:D enough talk. LET'S GET DOWN TO IT!

(credit to google images)

there are some rules to the basic eyebrow shape and it's easy enough!

1. take a pencil and line it up from the side of your nose straight up to your eyebrow, this is where your eyebrow should start. 

2. take pencil from the side of your nose and align it across your pupil, this is where the arch of the eyebrow should be. 

3. lastly, take your pencil from the side of your nose again across the outer corner of your eye and this is where your eyebrow should end.

(credit to google images)

my preference is for thick, natural brows, somewhat like the Korean-esque looking sort you see on all the actresses singers, i really like! don't like brows that are too thin, too arched or too dark/fierce. here's what i do to achieve the sort of brow shape i want, groomed but still natural! :D

TADAAH! how my brows look like after i'm done tweezing/shaping them. as you can see, the shape is pretty much there, but my brows are rather sparse in front, and i actually like them to be slightly thicker!

 oh one of my pet peeves is also seeing girls who look like they used a charcoal stick to draw in their brows, brows are way too heavily drawn on with a black eyebrow pencil D: D: D: PLEASE DO NOT! what you really don't want is for your brows to be the first thing people stare at when they look at you.

(credit to google images)

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

always look for the right shade when choosing your brow products, which is 1-2 tones lighter than your hair color. most of us don't have jet black hair, so please don't use black brow pencil, it is just scary D:


AAAAND. that's the end of my rather simple guide to DIY brows! do leave a comment if you found it helpful, or if you have any questions or points you wanna clarify! :D i hope it was of some help!!

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anyways. I JUST DID MY DEBUT GIG AT SWITCH LAST NIGHT OMFG!!!
in English too omfg x 1000.

yes, i was very very excited about it and i still am! IT WAS SO FUN!!! especially when so many of my friends came down to support... oh man.. i LOVE you all so much! i am so incredibly infinitely blessed.

i was so worried i would majorly screw up, but i think it wasn't THAT bad. well, not as good i would wish myself to be, obviously, but at least noone booed me down the stage ahahahaha :X ok i'll talk about it more when i blog with all the photos of everyone who came down! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

more photos of everyone soon, but sharing these two my sissy Lina and my friends took for me!

I sang with Ground Zero, who play at Switch every Saturday and they are AMAZING! Merv, the bassist, is actually my friend, and the one who roped me in. thanks Merv!

and me channelling some inner rock star LOL i am sooo ugly when i am singing zomg i look horrendous and this is like one of the nicest shot :X

off for dinner with mumsy now! be back to update soon!